A Jamaican plantation : the history of Worthy Park, 1670-1970 /

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"Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the stu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Craton, Michael (Autor), Walvin, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1970]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Worthy Park (Jamaica) > History
Sugar plantations > Jamaica.
Sugarcane industry > Jamaica.
Plantations, Vie dans les > Jamaïque.
Canne à sucre > Industrie > Jamaïque.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Sugarcane industry
Sugar plantations
Jamaica > History.
Worthy Park (Jamaïque)
Jamaïque > Histoire.
Jamaica
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The coming of the English
  • Francis Price and the foundation of Worthy Park
  • Consolidation and the advent of sugar, 1689-1730
  • Sir Charles Price : Apogée of the Price fortune, 1730-1775
  • The sugar economy of an Eighteenth-century estate
  • Slave society of an Eighteenth-century estate
  • Worthy Park narrowly preserved, 1775-1815
  • The coming of emancipation, 1815-1834
  • The losing struggle, 1834-1863
  • Nadir : Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918
  • Renaissance : the coming of the Clarkes, 1918-1945
  • Present and future.

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